Bakuon!!/Trivia


  • Accidental Innuendo: All In-Universe:
    • In episode 9, when they're recruiting new members, Hane is holding a sign reading "バイクで青春しよう!!" (Baiku de seishun shiyou!! -- "Let's enjoy youth on a motorcycle!!"). In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment Hijiri, meanwhile, is holding a sign with an abbreviated version of Hane's sign which reads "Bai shun". Unfortunately for poor Hijiri, the expression "baishun" can also mean "prostitution". Which might explain why they only got one new member.
    • In episode 10, Hane unintentionally makes a Double Entendre referencing a clichéd Japanese expression commonly used by a sexual predator speaking to a girl in order to throw her off her guard. The gist of the cliché expression is "Only the tip (of my penis. I will not insert it deeply into you)". Crunchyroll, interestingly enough, translated it as "you can mount it but you don't have to go all the way", preserving some of the innuendo.
  • Credits Gag: Episode 10's ending sequence -- which rolls over an instrumental -- include a credit to Lime for its vocals.
  • Expy: It's surprisingly easy to draw parallels between the core cast of Bakuon!! and that of K-On! -- see the list of parallels on the YMMV page.
  • Hey, It's That Place!: The mound with a pole on it where Hane wakes up after the overnight ride with "Jesus" is a real place in Aomori, the tomb of Jesus according to local tradition.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!:
  • Meaningful Name: Each girl's name corresponds to their motorcycle:
    • Hane means "Wing". Not only does it reference the Honda Wing logo, it also ties into her wing-shaped barrettes, the opening theme referring to her as "the girl with wings", and repeated images of her with spectral wings as she rides her pink Su-Four.
    • "Onsa" is a pun on the Japanese word for "tuning fork": Yamaha also makes musical instruments, and a six-pointed star made of tuning forks is part of Yamaha's logo.
    • Rin's last name -- Suzunoki -- very obviously incorporates "Suzuki".
    • Hijiri's last name, Minowa, literally means "three wheels", referencing the sidecar she rides in for most of the series.
    • Kawasaki Raimu is a more of a case of an (en)forced trope. Raimu is transliterated into English on the leaderboard for the race at the school festival as "Lime",[1] which is the color of both her uniform neckerchief and her motorcycle. It is unknown if it is her actual personal name or a nickname. Her last name, "Kawasaki", is a known alias, given to her by the school principal.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed:
    • Chisame's father, Kinya Nakano, is a thinly-disguised version of retired Grand Prix motorcycle road racer Shinya Nakano.
    • The three Suzuki riders on the dock at Hokkaido were cameos by three famous racers of the time.
  • Shout-Out:
    • A bicyclist in episode 1 appears to be Kinjou from bicycling manga Yowamushi Pedal.
    • Lime is very much a deliberate homage to the Stig.
    • Rin's full name packs several references:
      • "Suzunoki" very clearly incorporates "Suzuki".
      • With a slight variation in spacing, it apparently is also a term for "giraffe" ("suzu no kirin"), which is mentioned by her father and alluded to in commercial bumpers that show a preteen Rin with a giraffe.
      • The "ki Rin" part of her name is also a reference to the motorcycling manga Kirin by Harumoto Shohei.
    • Hayakawa's name is a reference to Hayakawa Hikaru, the protagonist of 750 Rider, 1970s-80s motorcycle manga.
    • Hijiri invokes Rebel Without a Cause when explaining why she wants to play a game of "Chicken" with the other girls, complete with hand-drawn "stills" from the movie.
    • "Is this Heaven?" "Of course not. We're in Aomori." (In the original Crunchyroll sub; the Sentai Filmworks DVD translates the lines differently.)
    • Episode 4 also has subtle references to Back to the Future, and Cannonball Run.
    • To Journey to the West in Episode 5, as the girls briefly envision themelves as the characters of that novel.
    • In episode 6 there is a brief appearance of the same medieval woodcut of the sephiroth that's used in Neon Genesis Evangelion, in the same manner (a transparent moving image overlaid on a full-color background).
    • Also in episode 6, the theme to The X-Files plays during the flashback scene in which Lime reveals what she spent her winnings on.
    • The whole betting flashback appears to be a reference to the 1989 film Let It Ride.
    • The moment in episode 6 where the girls write on their palms is a reference to a scene in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms where Zhūgé Liàng and Zhou Yu write a character which symbolises their tactical move on their palms.
    • The (partially-visible) words written on Room 1-B's windows in episode 7 are "Big Joe Cafe". Big Joe was a manga artist popular in the 1970s, famous for his manga about food.
    • Hijiri's cosplay in episode 7 was a parody of the Toku villainess Queen Hedrian, who appeared in the Super Sentai series Denshi Sentai Denziman and Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan.
    • Hane's Christmas gift for Rin in episode 8 involves some complicated wordplay in both English ("muffler" vs. "scarf") and Japanese (the latter requiring some cultural knowledge to get the joke), as well as getting a dig in at Hane's ditz tendencies (she embroidered a single katakana upside down by mistake, turning it from "Yoshimura" to "Yoshiwara"). And after all that it also references a print by Hokusai called "Yoshiwara in the New Year". Whew.
    • In episode 8, the girls drive to Inubōsaki ("Cape Inubo") in order to watch the first sunrise of the New Year, something that many people do. Onsa's voice actress Uchiyama Yumi also did the voice of Inubōzaki Fū from Yuki Yuna is a Hero -- so this episode is also the story of how Inubōzaki went to Inubōsaki.
    • The kimono-plus-hakama ensemble Lime wears at Inubōsaki is what female students wore in Japanese schools more than a century earlier.
    • The brand of canned coffee in the flashback in episode 9 is a parody of the design used by a real brand, Pokka, in the 1980s.
    • The motorcyclist who tried to pick up the principal in episode 9 peppers his speech with references to 1980s/90s Japanese pop culture:
      • "Love will win" -- the title of a 1990 hit by Singer-Songwriter Kan
      • During the race he says "Yamadakatsutenai", which references the late 1980s-early 1990s TV show Yamadakatsutenai TV (in one episode of which "Love Will Win" was performed).
      • He also says "Ima Sugu kiss me" ("Kiss me right now") after the race. This was the title of a 1990 hit song by the band Lindberg.
    • To K-On! in episode 9, when the school's Light Music Club does its demonstration immediately before the Motorcycle Club, and they play a song called "Potato Is a Staple Food", which is a parody of the Hokago Tea Time song "Rice Is a Side Dish".
      • There's probably a second-level reference there as well to the Hokago Tea Time song "Watashi no Koi wa Hotchkiss", better known in English as "My Love is a Stapler".
    • The motorcycle video game in the arcade scene in episode 10 is modeled on Sega's Hang-On. (And Bakuon!!‍'‍s production company, TMS Entertainment, is a subsidiary of Sega.)
    • The Kanagawa Bus Guide game visible in the background of the same scene is a reference to another Sega arcade game, a driving simulator called Tokyo Bus Guide.
    • The appearances of the number "56" around Chisame's house (and its resemblance to the 56 Design Shop building) all have to do with how her father Kinya Nakano is (as noted above) a thinly-disguised version of real-world Grand Prix motorcyclist Shinya Nakano, plus a bonus reference to the lubricant brand "Kuré 5-56".
    • The staff at the motorcycle school in episode 10 all have nametags that refer to/parody various SF/F manga and TV shows:
    • Hijiri's bizarre "training aid" is a parody of the training gear which appeared in the baseball manga and anime Star of the Giants.
    • In episode 11, Onsa has a parody of the famous poster for Akira in her bedroom.
    • The X-Files theme music makes another appearance in episode 11, as the doctor explains the disease "Suzukiphilia".
    • During the sumo scene in episode 11, the girls take names that are parodies of the ring names of real sumo grand champions that also reference themselves as well. The whole sequence is filled with references to the practices and argot of sumo.
    • In episode 12, when Lime wrote the letters "UW" on the board, this is a reference to the motorcycle manga W1 Lullaby by Hiroi Tetsuo. In it, an old man departs to visit his son in Kyushu, and the protagonist of the manga painted the letters "UW" -- "Bon Voyage" in the international maritime signal flag system -- on a wall as a farewell to him.
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  1. ↑ We assume that the work's creators know how they intended her name to be spelled.
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